Dr. Melissa Barlow
Professor

Email: mbarlow@uncfsu.edu
Phone: 672-1972
Office:  Lauretta Taylor Building, Room 316

Educational Background

Ph.D., Criminology,
Florida State University

Dr. Melissa Barlow's Assignments

Kraska, 2006
Barlow, Barlow, and and Chiricos, 1993
Barlow, Barlow, and Chiricos, 1995
Baldwin, 1961
Rusche, 1978
Rothman, 2006
Irwin and Austin, 2006
Vera Institute
Barlow, 1998

Related Links

• And Justice For Some
• Education on Lockdown: The Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track 
• Defining and Redirecting a School to Prison Pipeline
• The Color of Discipline
• Best Practices for Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline

Dr. Barlow received her Ph.D. in Criminology in 1991 from Florida State University and has been teaching criminology and criminal justice for seventeen years.  Prior to joining the faculty at Fayetteville State University, she taught at South Carolina State University, the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and, most recently, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  Dr. Barlow has published articles on crime and justice in the mass media and on the political economy of crime control policy.  She is co-author of  Police in a Multicultural Society: An American Story and is currently writing about the history of relations between police and African Americans in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.